Mona K. Sutphen (born November 10, 1967) served as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011. She is currently Partner & Head of Investment Strategies at The Vistria Group, a Chicago-based private equity firm founded by Marty Nesbitt. From 2013 to 2019, she was a partner at Macro Advisory Partners LLP and from 2011-2013 was Managing Director at UBS AG, covering geopolitical risk, macro-policy trends and their impact on the global economy. She has also previously held positions as an American diplomat and served on the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration. She is the co-author of The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise.

Contents

• 1 Background
• 2 Other activities
• 3 Personal life
• 4 Works
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Background

Sutphen is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and graduated from John Marshall High School there. Her mother was Jewish and her father African American.

She earned her B.A. in international relations in 1989 from Mount Holyoke College and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics.

From 2001-2008 Sutphen was managing director of Stonebridge International, a Washington-based business strategy consulting firm that works with multinational corporations, financial ins*utions and other organizations on challenges worldwide. She also served as Vice President for Currenex.

She has served as a United States Foreign Service officer (1991–2000), serving in the Clinton White House on the staff of the National Security Council (1998–2000)., She also worked in the State Department's Human Rights bureau, and at the U.S. Emb*y in Bangkok.

Sutphen is a Trustee of Mount Holyoke College and serves on the advisory board of the Columbia Center for Global Energy Policy. She previously was an adjunct professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and is the co-author (with Nina Hachigian) of The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise.

Other activities

• Munich Security Conference (MSC), Member of the Security Innovation Board (since 2021)
• Spotify, Board Member (since 2021)
• Warner Music Group / Blavatnik Family Foundation Social Justice Fund, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2020)
• Council on Foreign Relations, Member
• Human Rights First, Member of the Board of Directors
• Putnam Mutual Funds, Member of the Board of Trustees
• International Rescue Committee (IRC), Member of the Board of Directors

Personal life

Sutphen is married to Clyde Williams, who previously served as President Bill Clinton's domestic policy adviser at his Foundation, as vice president at the Center for American Progress, and as the Democratic National Committee's political director. They married in 2001 and together they have two children.

Works

Hachigian, Nina and Sutphen, Mona. The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise, Simon & Schuster (January 8, 2008) ISBN:978-0-7432-9099-9

References

External links

• The Vistria Group
• Human Rights First
• Pioneer Natural Resources
• Pattern Energy
• Columbia Center for Energy Policy

Below solid line: Granted Cabinet rank although not automatically part of the Cabinet. See also: Confirmations of Barack Obama's Cabinet† Remained from previous administration.